With all the movies I've made about history, it's not really fun because you're trying to get it right. You've got history telling how it was, and then my imagination is telling me how I wish it had been, but I can't go there, so I have to censor myself. I'm very good about stopping myself from creating history that never occurred, but it's frustrating.

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.

I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt.

The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of.

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

Every movie you're going to forget that it's 3D whether it's widescreen or whatever it is, you're going to forget everything if the movie is working. If the movie doesn't work or if the movie generically doesn't work then immediately you start to pick apart whatever has contributed to that.

Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.